Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Race 1 – Frankie Ferocious There are very few pacers that can cut out splits of 27.4, 28.8 and 27.1 from the front in a race, and then run home their final quarter in 25.8 seconds. Leap to Fame is one who springs to mind, but who can name another? After last night we all […]
The New Zealand standardbred yearling sales kick off today at Karaka and it shapes to be a cracker, with a catalogue filled full of quality bred, well-related youngsters from beginning to end. What’s striking about it otherwise is that there are only 7 stallions out of 13 with entries in the sale that have sired […]
Jason Grimson is just too good for everyone else at the moment. Last night at Menangle, Grimson had 8 starters in 6 races. He won 4 of them, training the quinella in two where he had dual starters. Grimson’s other pair finished 3rd and 4th. Both were big runs. 7 of the 8 runners had […]
Trot trainers don’t pluck a horse from Jason Grimon’s barn and make it better. It’s unheard of. That’s what Grimson does to others, he doesn’t have it happen to him. Or he didn’t anyway, until the wonder kid Seaton Grima rode into town and did it. Grimson couldn’t train Firefox to win a single race […]
Just take a look at this start of the 6th race at Albany in WA on Friday night will you? The horse named Hope in the purple and yellow colors wheels around and breaks through the tape, but instead of calling it a false start which it is, the starter lets them go. As a […]
Why on earth would the Stewards agree to John Dunn’s request to adjourn their inquiry into interference that he caused to another horse and driver by the careless way that he drove McKendrick? There were no ifs or buts about this one. Dunn clearly came across and took the other horse’s running to his own […]
The great Keith McDeed exploded back into the winners list at Newcastle yesterday, breaking a more than a 2-year drought by winning the prestigious TAB Venue Mode HRNSW Guaranteed 2yo Maiden Pace, a race that in the past has been won by legends of the crushed of the compacted granite dust circuit such as Whatshisname, […]
Zac didn’t drive Mach Shard, Scott Phelan did, but I like the picture and Barry’s in it. It’s not often these days that you see a Grand Circuit standard horse racing free legged without any hopples. In fact it’s an absolute rarity. That didn’t stop master trainer Barry Purdon from keeping the gear off his […]
Everyone’s favorite racing media personality Jason Bonnington has been absent from our screens since being forced to walk the plank from his job with HRV toward the end of last year, and a lot of readers have been inquiring after his health and wondering where he’s been. Well it’s now our great pleasure to be […]
A couple of weeks back we wrote about the amazing later career renaissance of trainer David Waite after he took over the reins from the disqualified Leon Jurd as the trainer for former Club Menangle and HRNSW boss Rex Horne, the real estate with the stand named after him. David Waite’s Golden Run of Success […]
